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Michèle Barth-Cao Danh, Lecturer, French

I am a native of France, and I received my Ph.D. in French Literature and Language from Boston University. My period of specialization is the long eighteenth-century, particularly the literary-philosophical trajectory stretching form the 17th-centurty moralistes to the 18th- century philosophes. I teach language courses and a course in French cinema where we study images of French youth since the late 1980's.

My research focuses on how women's writings reflect and inflect intellectual constructions of the 17th- and 18th- centuries. I am also interested in issues related to immigration and racism in French cinema. My book La Philosophie cognitie et morale d'Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). La Volonté d'être (Peter Lang, 2002) examines the cognitive and moral philosophy of salonnière, writer and philosopher, Anne-Thérèse de Lambert. Feel free to contact Michèle Barth-Cao Danh either via e-mail or through her office at 281 Holmes Hall, 617.373.4454.